Miles Quaritch said:

Nice OP.

Also happy to see they are going with a 13 episode season, hopefully that means not too much filler.

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vaderise said:

I hope this season is a lot closer to comic storyline.
Herr Star makes me excited gor this season, i hope it delivers.

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TheWraith said:

Season 1 was ab abomination, not much faith they can still turn it around, but here is hoping.

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RoyaleDuke said:

Please don't be absolutely fucking shit like the last season.

Please.

Herr Starr being there gives me a little hope.

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Fortunately, the first three episodes of the new season get straight to road-tripping, taking Jesse, Tulip, and Cassidy from the backroads of Texas to an Indian-themed (as in Mumbai, not Apache) casino to a series of jazz clubs in New Orleans, each stop theoretically taking them closer to finding the Almighty and calling Him to account for all that’s wrong in the world, while also having them run afoul of cops, gangsters, a secret global conspiracy, and the Cowboy (Graham McTavish from Outlander), sprung from Hell at the end of last season to go after Jesse — who’s currently playing host to a half-angel, half-demon called Genesis that gives him power called the Word of God, which can make anyone do whatever he says — with guns so accurate and deadly, they can lay waste to immortals just as easily as to regular people.

Preacher is almost instantly a livelier and more satisfying show as a result of the change. Catlin and company are still mixing and matching parts of the comic like the Cowboy with their own stories and characters, but the tone is much more light-hearted, and Jesse is now an active rogue rather than a sad sack struggling through a role everybody knows he’s no good at. There were stretches in the first season where Negga’s vigorous performance as the casually homicidal Tulip (still the character most improved in translation from page to screen) was the only reason to stick around; now that Jesse has a mission, and he and Tulip and Cassidy are working together and keeping slightly fewer secrets between them, episodes feel more evenly distributed, so that when our misfit heroes split up, it can be fun to follow any of them, alone or in pairs.

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To a degree, Preacher resembles Starz’s American Gods, which also adapts a beloved work by a star of the ’90s comics scene, which also arguably devoted too much of its first season to setting up the story rather than just telling it, and which shares a vibe of, “I don’t quite understand what’s happening, but it looks really cool and is played with such energy that I’m just gonna go with it.” And we’re still in such early phases of this new Preacher story that it’s hard to predict whether the show has found a new and improved quality level or is just charged up at the start of another year. (Season one was at its strongest early on, before it became clear there wasn’t enough life in Annville to sustain 10 hours.) But it feels more like, well, a TV show — one that better understands its strengths and its weaknesses, and that is actually going somewhere, narratively as well as physically, after being stuck in an uninteresting place for too long.

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The thing Preacher is now seems much more entertaining and sustainable. I just wish it had gotten us to this thing much sooner.

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Still, interested viewers — especially those who were burned out or disappointed by Preacher’s first season — should feel heartened by the show’s return this year (including the cartoony premiere episode, directed against by Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg). Despite its narrative issues, it’s too stylish and unique to write off, and its cast is incredibly strong across the board. Still, it’s uncertain whether or not the show can really get off the ground and get going this year, even as the trio hit the road. Once burned, twice shy.

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[With Jesse still taking much of the main focus, this newest season of “Preacher” benefits from his sense of singular purpose. Having an overarching goal and a shortened list of distractions has left the humans and immortal beings in his inner circle with the perfect antidote to a world where God is missing and an honest mistake can trap a teenager in Hell. There are plenty of miles on the odometer still left to travel, but few shows have done a better job tidying up the roadmap.

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jrcbandit said:

Can I just skip season 1? I got tired of it after 3 or so episodes and disliked how it was almost nothing like the comics.

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Cptkrush said:

I thought season 1 was incredible. Between this and American Gods, TV shows got weird, and I'm fully on board. I even read vol 1 before checking out the show and I still loved it, especially when it all came together at the end.

Anyone know if this'll be on Hulu as it airs or will it be delayed until the season is over again?

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BoogieWoogie said:

If you read the comics, you can totally skip the rest of the season. I think the big takeaway that's different from the books is:

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Arseface is trapped in hell and serves the role of "John Wayne" for Jesse.

Also, a big plus of the first few episodes of season 2:

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They "fix" Arseface's origin from the first season.

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ferr said:

S1 was so slow. Nothing happened. NOTHING.

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Parch said:

I hope the writing is better and the show actually has some sort of direction.
I'm kinda surprised the show got a 2nd season.

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Those are relatively small gripes; overall, Preacher recovers a lot of ground from the first season, thanks in part to improved pacing. And it’s really just looking better than ever, from the costuming to the sun-washed cinematography and gorgeous saturated colors. That vibrant color palette pairs perfectly with the heightened focus of the season, which will hopefully remain just as sharp as the rest of it unfolds. A hunt for god(s) has recently played out on the small screen, but the focus and dynamic of this hell-bound road trip (yes, the underworld pops up, too) is different. There is a swindle going on in Preacher, but the audience is no longer the one being taken for a ride.

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HStallion said:

I thought the first season was terrible and not simply as an adaptation of the comic but as a show in general. It's pace was meandering at best, the characters seemed drastically shift from episode to episode (Jesse especially), it seemed to think shock value made up for those weaker elements and so on and so forth. I have little hope this second season will actually be good even if it adheres closer to the comic book but I'll give it a few episodes before I drop this show for good.

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That means they're unified in going toward something and also in moving away from something, and that breeds momentum. It's heavily serialized, and yet the hours are pleasantly episodic, bridged by cliff-hangers. It feels like a TV series, which isn't always how the show felt last year.

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Putting the characters together — not always, as they're still capable of personal missions — lets Preacher draw much more humor, and occasionally emotion, from the dynamics between the core trio, boasting an even stranger assortment of attempted accents this season than previously.

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The clearer storytelling benefits the actors. Or maybe nothing has actually changed, and maybe the past year since Preacher premiered has seen enough out-there programming debut — Legion, Twin Peaks, the aforementioned American Gods, etc. — that Preacher just doesn't feel as outre anymore.

I don't think that's it. I think Preacher was just a complicated adaptation process, and the first season found the creators doing the best they could just to get this world moving, while the second season finds them more comfortable and better able to really tell this story.

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Parch said:

I'm kinda surprised the show got a 2nd season.

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Corpsepyre said:

ADD?

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Discotheque said:

Its quite a step down from the comics but still I think Joe Gilgun is fucking amazing and is really doing his part to make this watchable.

Ruth Negga has been fun too. Hopefully it sticks a bit closer to the script this season. the killer plot on the road was dope, which should likely be up next chronologically if they're doing it that way.

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